4.4 Million free sermon downloads in past year SEATTLE, Washington - August 17, 2009 - Mars Hill Church today announced the release of a first-of-its-kind app for the iPhone.  The app is one of the latest technological advancements for one of the fastest growing and most innovative churches in America.  The Mars Hill app combines the church’s innovative media library with unprecedented accessibility to create a resource that is a first of its kind.

In the past year over 4.4 million of Pastor Mark Driscoll’s sermons have been downloaded from marshillchurch.org.  The pastor’s often controversial and always engaging style has drawn a worldwide online audience and has led to him being ranked as one of the top 30 most influential pastors in America.

The Mars Hill Church iPhone app makes available Mars Hill’s extensive media library of 25 sermon series, over 600 of Pastor Mark’s sermons, nearly 150 songs produced by Mars Hill bands, and an informative stream of blogs and updates directly to iPhone users.  Moreover, the church is continuing their policy of giving away all of their content for free.

With 40 million iPhone users in 77 countries, the development of this app is a pivotal component to a church with such a large global following.  With the Mars Hill iPhone app users around the world can:

-Listen to any Mars Hill sermon available on marshillchurch.org

-Watch any Mars Hill sermon video

-Stream Mars Hill music to their phone

-Email sermon links to friends

-Give to the mission of Mars Hill

-Stay informed and up to date from Mars Hill blog

-Get campus locations and listings

The app can be downloaded from the iTunes Store.


More About Mars Hill and Pastor Mark Driscoll

Mars Hill lives for Jesus as a city within the city -- knowing culture, loving people, and seeing lives transformed to live for Jesus.

Mars Hill has utilized technology and innovation from the beginning.  The church made headlines by being at the forefront of solidifying a presence on Facebook and Twitter - Pastor Mark’s and Mars Hill’s accounts have tens of thousands of friends and followers.  Their passion for proclaiming Jesus in any context or outlet has resulted in a church that has grown from 12 people meeting in the living room at Pastor Mark’s house to one that meets across 7 campuses in Seattle and an 8th in Albuquerque, New Mexico and averages nearly 7,000 a week in attendance.

Due to their growth, young congregation, and being on the front line of innovation in the church; Mars Hill and Pastor Mark Driscoll have received media coverage from outlets such as ABC’s Nightline, TIME Magazine, the New York Times, and FOX News.

For more information please visit marshillchurch.org.


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